Let's kick the tires and see what happens! Give it a try, and post any issues you have here.

--Other new features:*Mobile version - iPhone/android version that is actually usable!! Try it on your phone now.*My Discussions - It highlights your discussions in one tab so you can find them easily*Drafts - it saves your drafts as you type. When you come back later, you'll see a "My Drafts" thing pop up*Editing*Private messaging/inbox*Post Notifications - a fancy thing pops up if you are on a page and someone else posts to it.*Real-time posting - click submit and it shows up pretty much right away.*Email notifications - see in real time who's commenting on your posts. Don't worry, you can opt out if you don't love it.*Rich text editor - buttons to easily add bold/italic, photos, web links, etc. It's not enabled now because it needs to be configured (it doesn't work on Chrome mobile so it needs to be selectively turned off).*Split/Merge - not enabled yet. Other Moderator features too.

Wish list/future:*Search (eh... not here yet. It's high on the list!)*Link to open to the last comment in a given thread*"like", voting, or thumbs up postings*display categories menu bar for logged out users*fix some of the pages are that broken. E.G. photos in one thread only show hot links saying "attached files." but once you click on them, photos appear in the thread. Please POST the URLs of broken threads so they can be fixed!*Categories are disorganized - yes, they are just thrown in there for now. We need a drop down that shows all the forums when you hover over the top toolbar. Everything is on the right now, but could it be nested so it's more organized or at least in alphabetical order.*make posting photos easier (upload photos directly)

In terms of the links taking you to the most recent post. If you are logged in, the site should be doing exactly that. It works for me, and in fact when we were testing this out, the mods were asking for the links to take them to the FIRST post. :)

It might have to do with the site still trying to catch up with your "last read" posts. I think after you click around a bit, the issue should resolve.

I would also like the most recent post link - which is not necessarily "last one I read." With some of the threads on Brooklynian going back several years, I would prefer not to have to scroll back through the whole history of a thread to get to the most recent discussion.

Please move the most recent post to the top and present all postings in reverse chronological order. The current presentation is exhausting as you have to click/scroll through all the history (often from 3 years ago...), just to see the most current. Thanks.

In terms of it being exhausting to pore over 3 years worth of posts - this is not something I can control, short of locking up old posts. On most boards, the old posts drift down, but I think users here are in the habit of doing "one thread forever" for some topics.

@epiclylaterd yes, the neighborhoods are still there. Please see the right sidebar. Also, the "Categories" menu item across the top of the site. Let me know if it should be changed to be more obvious or intuitive.

@epiclylaterd oh yeah - the mobile site is zen and stripped down so it's easy to use on your phone. I'll check and see if there is a way to put a "categories" link on the menu bar. You can always scroll to the bottom of the mobile site and click "full site" which would make it easier to peruse categories on the phone.

@Brooklynian, the headline does NOT take you to the most recent post! It takes you to the first post in the thread, which means that if it's an old thread, you have to both scroll and paginate to get to the most recent comments.

After you have already read a thread, the headline does take you to the last place that you read from. But since the new board means that my "place" in old threads was lost, in order to see the current discussion, I have to scroll and page through what can be years of comments to get to the relevant actual post, which may just be one comment.

I really appreciated the ability to quickly jump to the end of any thread on the old board, and if there is some way to replicate that ability -- whether it's reverse-chronological posting, as @naturegirlbk suggested, or something closer to the previous functionality, I'd ask that you prioritize it. If you can't, maybe you can either (a) get rid of the pagination, so at least I don't have to both scroll and page through to get to the end of the thread, or (b) allow us a way to mark ALL threads as read, so we can effectively jump to the current discussion even in a thread that we've never contributed to. Thanks!

It should be noted that once you do click on a post, from then on the previous pages/replies will be remembered as "read' so after that it will jump automatically to the last post in the thread. But yes, we are working on getting that shortcut added or a 'mark all posts read" button added -stay tuned! Lots of stuff to work on, and nothing can happen overnight (the Admin does need to take some time to sleep/work/family) The all volunteer staff thanks you for your patience! (Now where are all the smilie buttons?!?)

Is there a way to add a more detailed time tag to comments? For example, the thread on the PH board about the car explosion on Lincoln Pl reads only "February 14." It would be helpful to know when on the 14th the car exploded. Thanks.

I think you may be right about that. I embedded a photo earlier today and it didn't show up as resized to me either. Now I rechecked it and it's resized. I think simply refreshing your page will let you verify it has been resized.

What are peoples opinions on the front page loading/showing full images along with the first post summary first lines? I kinda hate it because it takes up a huge chunk of the first page posts, when I really just want to browse through it quickly and then click on titles if I feel I want to read more.

I agree with whynot that the images make the page look a lot better and give you a better sense of what's going on in active posts vs. just seeing a lot of text.

I do not know how to limit the amount previewed to 1 pic. That said, the discussion excerpts on the front page have a word limit (currently set to about 50, I think), so any pictures that appear after 50 words of text will not display unless you click the post link.

For the "feature wish list:"Under Inbox: being able to differentiate new vs. read messages with some sort of bold vs plain text.

currently messages just say something like,

Brooklynian sent you a message.

It would be great to have message titles, for instance: Brooklynian sent you a message titled "Please log out!" or something.

Lastly, it would be awesome if instead of a dozen notifications that "X sent you comment" -- when actually it is just a reply to the same comment-- that the original notification just bumps up on your notification list in bold to show it is a new reply to the same comment previously read.

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@whynot_31 That is the old home page. The code that generates it has been deleted, which means you are somehow pulling up a cached version of the home page. I suspect that your browser had a cached copy of the home page. I tried to follow the steps you outline above, and I did not see the cached version of the page. I have a feeling that by refreshing the page, you cleared out the old home page, and if you try the same steps again, you will not see the cached version anymore. If you do, it would be great to know the browser version/device you are experiencing the error on.

That's a great idea, but then (at least technically) we don't have a place for "Brooklyn posts that don't apply to a specific neighborhood." As much as I dislike the idea of splitting up the categories further, maybe we do need separate "Brooklyn General" and "Beyond Brooklyn" categories.

I just reviewed the latest posts in the category, and in my estimation, most of them are more or less general-slash-brooklyn, so maybe we call it "Brooklyn General" and leave it at that.

On the front page, it presents the first few threads in a very snazzy manner, with lines separating them. However, after about the sixth thread, the lines disappear and the threads start to look combined.

The main page suddenly looks a mess! Nothing is separated into boxes, everything is centered down the middle of the page, etc. I only found this thread by doing a search on the screen for the word "different". It wasn't like this yesterday...